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We are happy to announce five stipends, each in the amount of 400 Euro, available for graduate students to help finance their visit of the workshop GROUND I: Yablo on Aboutness to take place at the University of Hamburg on August 3rd & 4th 2015.

In order to apply, please send a CV as well as cover page including your name, affiliation, contact information, and a brief statement of no more than 250 words, briefly explaining how your research would benefit from attending the workshop, to robert.schwartzkopff@uni-hamburg.de.

The application deadline is April 1st 2015. We aim to arrive at decisions no later than May 1st 2015.

Successful applicants are strongly encouraged to also attend the 4th Hamburg summer school conducted by Professor Stephen Yablo from July 27th to 31th 2015.

In the next couple of months members of Phlox will organize four events at the University of Hamburg.

(i) Graduate Workshop Language and World with Penelope Mackie in Feb

On Friday 27th and Saturday 28th of February, there will be a graduate workshop Language and World on philosophical issues in metaphysics and in the philosophy of language.
Speakers are: Arash Behboodi, Pablo Carnino, Suki Finn, Laurenz Hudetz, Romy Jaster, Sebastian Krebs, Insa Lawler, Katsuhito Nakasone. A keynote lecture will be provided by Penelope Mackie.
The workshop will take place in Seminarraum 1072, on the 10th floor of the ‘Philosophenturm’ of Hamburg University, Von-Melle-Park 6, 20146 Hamburg.

On the 25th and 26th of April 2015 the Nominalizations Project will host a workshop.
Speakers are: Artemis Alexiadou, Graeme Forbes, Thomas Hofweber, David Liebesman, David Liggins, David Nicolas, Arvid Båve and Katharina Felka.

We are very happy to announce that the Fourth Hamburg Summer School will be taught by Prof. Stephen Yablo from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prof. Yablo will present material from his new book Aboutness. The course will take place between the 27th July and 31st July 2015 at the University of Hamburg.

After the Summer School, Prof. Yablo will stay in Hamburg for a workshop with Kit Fine, Daniel Rothschild, Ken Gemes, and Katharina Felka, taking place on August 3rd and 4th. Attendance will be free but participants are asked to register with the organizers (please write an email to: robert.schwartzkopff@uni-hamburg.de).

We aim to offer up to 5 stipends of 400 EUR for graduate students who want to attend the workshop. Details will be circulated in the middle of February.

We will post updates and more information on these and further upcoming events in due course.

Professor Kit Fine will use his Anneliese Maier Research Price of the German Humboldt Foundation to finance a series of workshops on truthmaker semantics and related topics. The workshops will be organized by the Phlox research group under the auspices of Professor Benjamin Schnieder. The first instalment of the series will take place at the university of Hamburg on August 3rd and 4th 2015. The talks of the workshop are loosely centred around the themes of Professor Stephen Yablo’s latest book ‘Aboutness’.

Speakers:

Katharina Felka (Hamburg)

Kit Fine (NYU)

Ken Gemes (Birkbeck)

Friederike Moltmann (Paris)

Daniel Rothschild (UCL)

Stephen Yablo (MIT)

Attendance will be free but participants are asked to register with the organizers (please write an email to:

robert.schwartzkopff@uni-hamburg.de).

We aim to offer up to 5 stipends of 400 EUR for graduate students who want to attend the workshop. Details will be circulated in the middle of February.